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Map of the Pacific island groups, 1800s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

© North Wind Picture Archives

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Spider Web Rice Fields at Lodok Cancar Village, Flores Island, Indonesia

The rice field in Cancar, Ruteng is very unique. When viewed up close, it is just similar to common rice field. when viewed from above, the paddy fields in Cancar look like a spider web. Cancar is surrounded by hills, best place to see the spider web rice fields.
This spider web rice field is a customary tradition Manggarai Regency society in terms of the distribution of paddy fields and gardens called Lingko. Lingko is customary land that is owned together by the society, then shared individually and used them together to meet societya??s need. Customary land is distributed to members of society in accordance with custom

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Wayang puppet theatre and Gamelan Orchestra - Java

Wayang - Javanese puppet theatre (sometimes the puppet itself is referred to as wayang). Performances of shadow puppet theatre are accompanied by a gamelan orchestra in Java (now Indonesia) as depicted here. Date: circa 1920

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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